WASHINGTON. August 20, 2013 — Howard Baker’s famous question from the Watergate hearings has become the gold standard of investigative questions for Presidential scandals. While many people have wanted to ask that question about any number of so-called scandals, there is one scandal where that question must be asked sooner rather than later. What is it? It is the Benghazi scandal. In three weeks, the one-year anniversary of Benghazi will happen. One year on, there are still no answers but there are now even more questions. What really happened in Benghazi? What was that outpost really for since it was not a consulate? Were there really four hundred American surface to air missiles taken from that compound and were they destined for Syria? The conventional wisdom is that it is never the actual scandal that brings down a politician but the cover-up. It is the cover-up in Benghazi that has never made sense, unless there is something really damaging involved. Watergate was infamously described by the Presidential Spokesman Ron Zeigler as a “third rate burglary.” Benghazi is not a third rate scandal. Men died at Benghazi. Read more: communities.washingtontimes/neighborhood/judson-phillips-cold-hard-truth/2013/aug/20/what-did-president-know-and-when-did-he-know-it/#ixzz2cmNqqfKD Follow us: @wtcommunities on Twitter
Posted on: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 08:34:58 +0000
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